Entertainment

Entertainment

Violence is loved by all
though few will admit it,
the need to feed the anger is great
the thirst for havoc strong,
football, soccer,
people have died for that game.
Love of killing of movies also a great sport
feeding the moguls who make it for us popcorn eaters
drinking our coke,
cheering the killing,
yet never admitting the pleasure we get from watching.
It is only a movie after all,
yes fantasy,
yet real all the same.

We love to see flesh pounding flesh,
bodies blown up,
bullets flying,
yet,
without the coppery smell of blood,
or the mess of gore as bodies fall,
it is kept clean,
on the screen,
unreal,
yet it feeds us all the same.

Of course there is gore,
snuff but again just pretend;
fewer seem them
yet it feeds the same appetite
perhaps more jaded
or if you must pretend,
mature,
so much torture,
so little time,
only so much can be shown in 90 minutes.

One day perhaps we will grow up,
until then
carnage on the screen
in movies and on the news,
is our fare.

Here is to entertainment.